A Day in the City

Last weekend, M and I were in San Francisco. We parked near the Embarcadero and walked to Union Square. The building in the photo above was one of the many "urban mountains" we passed along the way.

While M shopped at H&M, I ventured over to the square. The open space was packed, but I found a spot to sit and read for a while. At the time, I was halfway through The Birth of the National Park Service: The Founding Years, 1913-33 by Robert Cahn and Horace M. Albright (the second director of the NPS). I found it amusing to be reading such a book in one of America's most urban settings.

Before leaving the city, I finally spotted an R2-D2 mailbox. It was probably more exciting to me than it should have been. Nobody else seemed to be interested in it, but I couldn't help but take a photo...